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        <a id="haveged" name="haveged"></a>Haveged-1.9.2
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          Introduction to Haveged
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          The <span class="application">Haveged</span> package contains a
          daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers and
          feeds the /dev/random device.
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          This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1
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          Package Information
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                Download (HTTP): <a class="ulink" href=
                "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/haveged/haveged-1.9.2.tar.gz">
                https://downloads.sourceforge.net/haveged/haveged-1.9.2.tar.gz</a>
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                Download MD5 sum: fb1d8b3dcbb9d06b30eccd8aa500fd31
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                Download size: 484 KB
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                Estimated disk space required: 20 MB (with tests)
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                Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)
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          User Notes: <a class="ulink" href=
          "http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/haveged">http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/haveged</a>
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          Installation of Haveged
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          Install <span class="application">Haveged</span> by running the
          following commands:
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<kbd class="command">./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</kbd>
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          To test the results, issue: <span class="command"><strong>make
          check</strong></span>.
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          Now, as the <code class="systemitem">root</code> user:
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<kbd class="command">make install &amp;&amp;
mkdir -pv    /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.2 &amp;&amp;
cp -v README /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.2</kbd>
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          Configuring haveged
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            <a id="haveged-init" name="haveged-init"></a>
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            <a id="haveged-init" name="haveged-init"></a><span class=
            "phrase">Boot Script</span>
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            If you want the <span class="application">Haveged</span> daemon
            to start automatically when the system is booted, install the
            <code class="filename">/etc/rc.d/init.d/haveged</code> init
            script included in the <a class="xref" href=
            "../introduction/bootscripts.html" title=
            "BLFS Boot Scripts">blfs-bootscripts-20191204</a> package (as the
            <code class="systemitem">root</code> user):
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<kbd class="command">make install-haveged</kbd>
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          Contents
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Programs:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">haveged</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Libraries:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">libhavege.so</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Directory:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">/usr/include/haveged</span>
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            Short Descriptions
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                    <a id="haveged-prog" name="haveged-prog"></a><span class=
                    "term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>haveged</strong></span></span>
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                    is a daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of
                    random numbers harvested from the indirect effects of
                    hardware events based on hidden processor states (caches,
                    branch predictors, memory translation tables, etc).
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